leopardml2341

Dead simple answer.....

Use the whole of the oncoming lane to overtake, and if you can't see far enough ahead to do that then it ain't safe anyway.

#simples

4 hours ago, rka said:

I saw someone paid £150 for a crownline kit for an 08 shunter chassis. 

Anyone on here want to buy one?

.....or Deliveroo :)

On 06/06/2022 at 19:47, newbryford said:

Terrible news coming from Merseyside this morning.

 

The Birkenhead Tunnel has been closed and the speed limit will be reduced for
 the foreseeable future to 25mph

The Highways Agency found over 200 dead crows on the tunnel approach recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. 

A Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, has confirmed in their report the problem was NOT Avian Flu but rather the cause of death appeared to be from vehicular impacts. 

However, during analysis it was noted that varying colours of paints appeared on the ...bird's beaks and claws. By analysing these paint residues it was found that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with lorries, while only 2% were killed by cars.

 

The Agency then hired an Ornithological Behaviourist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills. 
The Ornithological Behaviourist quickly concluded that when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow to warn of danger.

They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout "Cah", not a single one could shout "Lorry"

MICHAEL!

Is all I will say

As this topic is about driving standards, who wants to confess to having a 'points free' licence since they passed their first test? 

Making a swift, but within the speed limit,  exit 🚔

Car licence in 1982 for me.

PSV in 1996.

3 hours ago, leopardml2341 said:

Just wondering how a 'reason to suspect' might be determined.......?

1 hour ago, Reorte said:

 

The idea that if we can't determine who criminal suspects are we should assume everyone is one is not a sign of a healthy society.

That's getting dangerously close to the 'If we didn't see it, it didn't happen school of thought'.

Not sure that's a healthy sociological model.

22 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said:

is it wrong to do 60mph in the left lane?

Some people think it's wrong to USE the left left; at least on the A50 hereabouts. 

6 minutes ago, Reorte said:

(I'm very much in the "no business at all trying to do any of that to anyone until you've got reason to suspect" camp).

Just wondering how a 'reason to suspect' might be determined.......?

Whats even more annoying is when a driver follows closely the vehicle in front with no intention of overtaking. Leaving a bigger gap would permit those behind to 'leapfrog' each vehicle in turn - safe conditions permitting of course :)

At one time there were signs at entry slip roads stating the various differing restrictions for motorway use - IIRC one was MINIMUM speed of 40 mph.

Not on the signs:

But I remember it from somewhere in the highway code, so maybe there was one of these as well?

Well, just checked the highway code and there's no mention of minimum speed limits on motorways, though I'm convinced at one time there was a prohibition of vehicles on motorways where those vehicles could not travel at 40 mph or higher.

I am told, by an occifer of the law, that for speed limits to be enforceable there must be a sign on each side of the carriageway and directly opposite eachother at the commencement of said limit.

On 23/05/2022 at 10:19, Reorte said:

I'm the type of person who looks at that as car designers making cars too big for the environment they're supposed to operate in, rather than it being down to the world to change to fit oversized cars.

....the need for oversized cars being created by 'oversized people'?

I've used owatrol oil as an additive to primer on mi narrowboat - however, beware it DOES change the surface finish despite what it says on the tin.

My primer coat, instead of being the required dead flat finish is a now a bit more akin to vinyl silk.

The owatrol oil had bl@@dy well better act as the corrosion inhibitor that it (also) claims to be........

Back from mi 'ols; feeling decidedly flat :(

13 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

Tell me, oh spotted feline friend, what is this “retirement“ of which the citizens of ER Shire speak so proudly off? There must be magic in the air of this fabled county, whereby whenever a good citizen reaches a magical number of summers passed, they are magically transformed into Ladies and Gentlemen of ease and leisure, blessed with a bottomless coffer of golden coins called “a pension”.

 

I have long said goodbye to that mysterious and magical number of years celebrated in ER Shire and I am still chained to my place of labour and strife, working many long seconds each day to earn mere extortionate quantities of worthless baubles called “money” - pitting my wits against that evil mage known as “The Taxman”, trying to salvage enough crumbs from his table to keep Mrs iD in designer rags and stave off the canine starvation of Lucy and Schotty with paltry morsels of beef filet and steak…

 

And every day, having staggered back to my foetid and stinking mansion, settled my weary bones into the rough embrace of a Corinthian Leather Wing Chair, had a poor and meagre supper of Sevruga fish eggs on stale bread (toasted to make it appear fresh), I stare into my shabby Waterford Crystal tumbler of a cheap 25 year old single malt and despair…

C'est la vie!

Good Morning all fellow workers.....

8 hours ago, black and decker boy said:

Courtesy of Spooners bar, some Purple Moose Steam Ale whilst watching 5 small quarry locos shunting. A winning combo

 

I see no trains......

OK then; cattle. 

7 hours ago, phil_sutters said:

Generally searching is best done in the singular - that way you should get both the singular and plural - bus and buses. That is unless the plural is a bit unusual - can't think of one at the moment, though.

Knickers 🤣

Currently drinking eurofizz in the form of Hellas Pils, but wait....

It has an uncanny taste of Castle Rock Harvest Pale about it and moreover it ain't too fizzy either.

5 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Morning all 

We have had a terrible time in the past painting over fresh plaster albeit with a coat of magnolia on it the wall just sucks the paint In requiring 2 or 3 coats.

For the spare bedroom I used Everbuild filler coat as a base and the magnolia was covered in one coat only problem was that it did smell a bit you definatley have to have a window open 

Being a Yorkshireman, I just use wallpaper paste. Much cheaper. 😋